Lisa Pisano, the woman who received the world’s first heart pump and pig kidney combined transplant passed away Sunday at the age of 54, CBS News reported. Pisano, a grandmother who underwent ...

A grandmother died on Sunday, months after she received a combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant, according to the hospital that performed the surgeries. Lisa Pisano ...

The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney has been completed ... She had both heart and kidney failure but was not a candidate for a combined ...

(CNN) — The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney ... both heart and kidney failure but was not a candidate for a combined heart and ...

Surgeons implanted a mechanical heart pump in Pisano days before the transplant, which NYU Langone Health said was a world-first for this combined ... gene-edited pig-to-human kidney transplant ...